> veteran storms animal shelter to rescue his cat
> armed dad holds off doctors and cops long enough for son to emerge from a coma
these feel like signs
> armed dad holds off doctors and cops long enough for son to emerge from a coma
these feel like signs
also that second story makes me feel reallllly fucking dubious about the whole concept of "brain death"
like if you can be declared brain-dead and then just suddenly wake up with your consciousness and personality intact -- either the doctors were complete fucking retards/acting maliciously or our definition of legal death is extremely suspect. that, or this was a case of literal divine intervention
to be fair, this sure fucking sounds a lot like divine intervention
but the whole point of brain death is it's supposed to be "real, final, end-of-the-line no resuscitation possible death", that's why it's the legal standard. the idea is that brain death is when the brain's structures have decayed so badly due to lack of oxygen that even if the person could be magically restored to life and health, it wouldn't even matter because everything they were in life would already be gone. if they even could attain "consciousness" again somehow, they'd just be empty, no functionality except maybe some extremely primitive instincts and reflex motions; no one would be home.
this really makes it sound like the theory is a whole lot messier in practice
this really makes it sound like the theory is a whole lot messier in practice
weellll then.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/neurologist-exposes-brain-death-myth-behind-multi-billion-dollar-organ-transplant-industry/
it is lifesitenews but this certainly fits with that poor kid's story perfectly
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/neurologist-exposes-brain-death-myth-behind-multi-billion-dollar-organ-transplant-industry/
it is lifesitenews but this certainly fits with that poor kid's story perfectly
> By the 1980s, when organ transplants were performed around the world, medical researchers experimenting on animals discovered that when blood flow to the brain is reduced from the normal range to just 20-50 percent, the brain would “fall silent” — but was neither “dead” nor “irreversibly damaged.” By the end of the 1990s, this phenomenon — called “ischemic penumbra” — was demonstrated in humans
> The Brazilian neurologist explained that while medical students might hear about this if “information is provided to the general public,” they will not learn it in medical school.
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> If you speak to doctors one-on-one, they will often tell you they agree, Dr. Coimbra said, but “they don’t want to mess with the transplant system,” which has one of the most “well controlled systems” of information sharing in the world.
> “The transplant system is a wealthy system; it is a powerful system,” Dr. Coimbra said. “They are everywhere in the medical community. They are in medical councils and medical academies; they are everywhere … Politically, they are very powerful.”
> “In the United States alone, in 2016 the transplant system involved business to the tune of approximately 25 billion dollars,” he noted. “By 2025, it is expected to reach 51 billion dollars per year.”
extremely disturbing but it sounds plausible to me
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> If you speak to doctors one-on-one, they will often tell you they agree, Dr. Coimbra said, but “they don’t want to mess with the transplant system,” which has one of the most “well controlled systems” of information sharing in the world.
> “The transplant system is a wealthy system; it is a powerful system,” Dr. Coimbra said. “They are everywhere in the medical community. They are in medical councils and medical academies; they are everywhere … Politically, they are very powerful.”
> “In the United States alone, in 2016 the transplant system involved business to the tune of approximately 25 billion dollars,” he noted. “By 2025, it is expected to reach 51 billion dollars per year.”
extremely disturbing but it sounds plausible to me
i am rethinking my organ donor status
> To compound the problem, Dr. Coimbra said the standard test used for screening “brain death” — called the “apnea test” — can actually induce irreversible brain damage to an already comatose patient, by reducing the blood and oxygen to the brain for 10 minutes.
are you fuckign shitting me
are you fuckign shitting me
doctors i swear to god
> To illustrate how much the “brain death” myth has gripped the minds of the medical community, Dr. Coimbra tells the story of a 15-year old girl who began to show signs of brain activity once he administered the necessary hormones. Seeing notes of progress Dr. Coimbra had made in the girl’s medical chart, a doctor on call in the ICU that night wrote: “Once a patient is declared ‘brain dead,’ the patient is dead. It doesn’t matter if later on the patient no longer fulfills the criteria for ‘brain death.’ The patient is legally dead, because it was once diagnosed as ‘brain dead.’”
and these are the people we trust with keeping us alive
and these are the people we trust with keeping us alive
> Yes, I have been trying to talk to the neurological community in my country and in other countries, and the reaction that we see is that some [doctors] will tell you — “Okay, I understand what you are saying, but never tell anyone that I agree with you” — because they don’t want to mess with the transplant system. The transplant system is a wealthy system; it is a powerful system. They are everywhere in the medical community. They are in medical councils and medical academies; they are everywhere. They are very powerful. Politically, they are very powerful.
tfw the billion-dollar organ donation industry
tfw the billion-dollar organ donation industry
*points at comatose man being carved up for his organs* this is your brain on capitalism
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@velartrill the moment they talked about "let's make the default to be donation" i got a card and checked the no donation box (and told relatives etc.).
it's the same as for vaccinations, i won't be forced to shit, fuck off.
the weirdest thing is that i'll usually help everyone who asks nice. as soon as i have the feeling of being extorted, i switch to feverish contrarian behavior.
@bonifartius okay apparently only my old WA enhanced ID card has an organ donor endorsement, and i don't carry that one here anyway. phew
i always opted in when i'd get my IDs in the US, never really thought twice about it bc it just seemed like the decent, unselfish thing to do; i never had any clue that it would affect my medical care *while i was still alive* (or that hospitals would make lots of money by selling my organs, jesus fuck). definitely not opting in here, probably should also stop carrying any of my old IDs with the organ donor endorsement on them just in case, tho idk if those have legal status here
apparently this cicero coimbra guy nearly lost his medical license and had to fight through the court system for two decades to hold onto it just because he spoke out about the organ harvesting of recoverably comatose patients and the totally unscientific idea of brain death, which is fucking terrifying